Brad Appleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Can you show us the headers from such a forwarded message? This doesn't
> > sound right at all.
>
> http://www.enteract.com/~bradapp/mutt-samp.txt
These messages don't look the way you originally posted them. In fact,
you made reference to the fact that your name appears in the From_
envelope separator, but that is not the case on these messages. In
fact, your name only appears in a Received: header, which I earlier
indicated, Mutt does not use.
> When I use mutt to read this folder (using the '-f' option) I get:
>
> 1 O Jul 21 To Perl5 Porte ( 19) [p5p] Re: FMTEYEWTK on Perl "Prototypes"
> 2 O Jul 21 To OT Users Gr ( 31) Re: (OTUG) Capturing technical requireme
> 3 O Jul 21 To ClearCase U ( 91) [cciug] CM positions in the Bay Area
Believe it or not, Mutt is doing absolutely the correct thing for these
messages. :)
> and yet I was not the originator of any of these messages.
Indeed.
> I don't understand why it thinks those messages are from me, and how
> to convince it that they aren't.
Mutt does *not* think that these messages are from you. Instead,
it thinks that they are list-messages, which were not sent to any
particular person, but instead were sent to a mailing list, of which
you are a member. You told Mutt this using the "lists" command.
Mutt's philosophy is that, in the case of a mailing list, you are not
nearly as interested in the name of the particular person who sent the
message. You are instead more interested in which mailing list the
message was directed to. Thus you can more easily determine, at a
glance, your level of interest in the particular message.
You can, of course, turn off this behavior by reconfiguring the
"index_format" variable (called "hdr_format" in older versions of
Mutt). See the manual for the particulars, but you probably want
to stop using the "%L" operator, and use the "%F" operator instead
(or maybe even "%n").
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